Since the 1980s, rock and hip hop have been regular, if sometimes uncomfortable, bedfellows. The soundtrack to otherwise forgettable movie Judgment Night was most widely recognised as bringing together rap and hardcore punk in significant fashion, uniting the then scene-leaders Onyx and Biohazard. It's a fusion taken up by Cardiff promoter Split Atom, which celebrates its first birthday tomorrow at Buffalo with a genre-crossing bill topped by Mudmowth.

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A senior director with the makers of Viagra has been arrested and accused of downloading child porn. British citizen Alan Hesketh is accused of posing as a 28-year-old woman while trading hundreds of images of children engaged in sex acts. Hesketh is based in the US as global patent director of drug giants Pfizer, whose […]

Pensioners and buffalo: not a good mix A man who took one of his pet buffaloes for a ride at a ranch north of Phoenix on New Year’s Eve ended up being bucked off the animal and trampled, authorities said. The unidentified 75-year-old man was flown to a hospital with non-life threatening injuries after the […]

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‘Black Widow’ Sonya Thomas, here seen posing with some pies that she will soon obliterate She may weigh only 48kg (7st 7lb), but Sonya Thomas is a heavyweight when it comes to scoffing chicken wings. Thomas â known in competitive eating circles as ‘The Black Widow’ â won her latest title by wolfing down 173 […]

Pregnant women who suffer from morning sickness can be consoled with the knowledge they have a lowered risk of breast cancer, new research has shown. A study of 3,000 women found nausea during pregnancy was associated with a 30% reduced chance of developing the disease in later life. Scientists think the explanation may be changing […]

Will Lindsay and her ex-con father make up? Lindsay Lohan’s dad says he wants to make amends with his wayward daughter, following his release from jail on Tuesday. “I’m going to wait, and when she sees I’m walking the walk, I’m hopeful she’ll open the door,” Michael Lohan told New York newspaper, Newsday. Michael was […]

A plastic statue of the baby Jesus was finally returned to its North Buffalo home following an amazing tour throughout New York State. Just days before Christmas 2005, the statue was taken from a Nativity scene and replaced with a note saying it would be returned in three days. However, it took eight months before […]

MEN WHO SMOKEare significantly less likely to be able to father a child, scientists claimed. Their fertility is reduced by about 75 per cent compared with non-smokers, research funded by cigarette giant Philip Morris found. The more cigarettes the smoker consumes and the longer he has smoked, the more his fertility will be damaged. Researchers […]

HE SENT NEARLYa billion junk e-mails at a rate of more than a million a day. As well as touting phony products ranging from herbal sex stimulants to get-rich-quick schemes, Howard Carmack also stole people’s online identities and set up hundreds of bogus e-mail accounts. Now the ‘crown prince of spammers’ has been dethroned – […]